[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 9 (Thursday, January 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2113-2114]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-770]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of the Census
[Docket Number 000103002-0002-01]
RIN 0607-XX52


Service Annual Survey

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Determination.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Census Bureau is conducting the 1999 Service Annual 
Survey. The results of the service annual program were previously 
published on a Standard Industrial Classification basis. Beginning with 
the survey year 1999, we will publish data using the new North American 
Industry Classification System (NAICS). With the NAICS implementation, 
the Service Annual Survey incorporates the previous Transportation 
Annual Survey, the Annual Survey of Communication Services, and the 
publishing industry from the Annual Survey of Manufactures into one 
service program. With NAICS, 149 new and emerging industries have been 
added to the Service Annual Survey, including air couriers, publishing, 
sound recording, waste management and remediation services, and 
selected financial industries. A new Information Sector also has been 
added to the survey that brings together industries that produce, 
manipulate, and distribute information and cultural products; that 
provide the means to transmit or distribute these products; and that 
process data or communications.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ruth A. Bramblett, Chief, Current 
Services Branch, Service Sector Statistics Division, on (301) 457-2766.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background on the Service Annual Survey

    Beginning with the survey year 1999, we will publish the Service 
Annual Survey data using NAICS. The structure of NAICS was developed in 
a series of meetings among the United States, Canada, and Mexico in the 
early to mid-1990s. NAICS recognizes the rapid changes in both the U.S. 
and world economies by providing a means to classify new and emerging 
industries. The system was constructed on a production-oriented, or 
supply-based, conceptual framework.
    Effective with the 1999 survey, the Census Bureau changed the 
Service Annual Survey questionnaires to reflect the many changes 
brought by NAICS. We expanded the number of form types and developed 
these forms to be more tailored to the industries they survey. The goal 
was to maximize industry coverage within our available resources.
    The revision to the Service Annual Survey has increased industry 
coverage. Previously, a single summary report was produced for each of 
the three surveys. We now will produce multiple data products and 
reports by various sectors.
    The Service Annual Survey provides dollar volume estimates for 
specific industries in the following NAICS sectors:
     Transportation and Warehousing (48-49)
     Information (51)
     Finance and Insurance (52)
     Real Estate, Rental, and Leasing (53)
     Professional, Scientific, and Technical (54)
     Administrative and Support, Waste Management and 
Remediation Services (56)
     Health and Social Assistance (62)
     Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (71)
     Other Services (81)
    The Service Annual Survey produces estimates of total receipts for 
all industries covered and source of receipts and other expanded data 
items for the following sectors:
     Trucking (484)
     Information (51)
     Selected industries in Finance and Insurance (52)
     Computer Systems Design and Related Services Industry 
(5415)
     Health and Social Assistance Sector (62), except subsector 
624 (Social Assistance)
    For the first time, this annual survey will collect e-commerce 
receipts/revenue for all services industries. In addition, the survey 
will collect exported services (receipts/revenue) for specified 
industries in the Information Sector.

Response to Comments

    The Notice of Consideration for the Service Annual Survey was 
published in the Federal Register on September 24, 1999 (64 FR 51736). 
No comments were received in response to that notice, and we made no 
significant changes since then to the Service Annual Survey program.

Paperwork Reduction Act

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person is required 
to respond

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to, nor shall a person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply 
with, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) unless that collection of information 
displays a current valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control 
number. In accordance with the PRA, 44 United States Code (U.S.C.), 
Chapter 35, the OMB approved the 1999 Service Annual Survey under OMB 
Control Number 0607-0422. We will furnish report forms to organizations 
included in the survey, and additional copies are available on written 
request to the Director, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC 20233-0101.

Program Requirements

    The Census Bureau conducts surveys necessary to furnish current 
data on subjects covered by the major censuses authorized by Title 13, 
U.S.C. The Service Annual Survey provides continuing and timely 
national statistical data for a period between the economic censuses. 
The next economic census is for the year 2002. Data collected in this 
survey are within the general scope, type, and character of those 
inquiries covered in the economic census.
    In accordance with Title 13, U.S.C. 182, 224, and 225, the Census 
Bureau has determined that 1999 data on total receipts, and total 
revenue and expenses for selected service industries are needed to 
provide a sound statistical basis for the formation of policy by 
various governmental agencies, and that these data also apply to a 
variety of public and business needs. Selected service industries 
include health, telecommunications, publishing, waste management, 
transportation, and finance industries. These data are not publicly 
available from nongovernment or other governmental sources.
    The Census Bureau needs reports only from a limited sample of 
service sector firms in the United States. The probability of a firm's 
selection is based on its revenue size (estimated from payroll). We are 
mailing report forms to the firms covered by this survey and require 
their submission within thirty days after receipt.
    Based upon the foregoing, I have directed that the Service Annual 
Survey be conducted for the purpose of collecting these data.

    Dated: December 27, 1999.
 Kenneth Prewitt,
Director, Bureau of the Census.
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